Cord-fastener.



M. C. KELLY.

CORD FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11. I916.

Patented Oct. 17,1916.

MICHAEL C. KELLY, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

oonnFAsTENER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL C. KELLY, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cord- Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertams'to make and use the same.

This invention relates to clamp cord fasteners for general use, but especially adapted for securing the cords of mail and other sacks, and has for its object to provide a clamp of this nature which will be simple in construction, comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and one that will be more efficient in action than those that have been heretofore proposed.

With these and other objects in view invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views: Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view illustrating an open mail sack to which my invention is adapted to be applied; Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the cord and sack in their closed positions, together with my invention in place thereon; Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the clamp detached from the sack, showing the cord passed therethrough; and Fig. 4 is a plan view 'of the clamp opened out .and with the cord ready to be locked in position.

1 illustrates a sack or other article around which a cord 2 is adapted to pass, and 3, 4, 5 and 6 represent bights of said cord.

In Fig. 1, the cord 2 is intended to act as a draw string for the mail sack 1, and 8 represents the usual label holder that is slid up to said sack into the position shown in Fig. 2 when the sack is closed.

The clamp 10 comprises the hasp member 11 having the eye 12 secured to the base member 13 by the hinge 14, as well as the staple member 15 secured to the base member 13 by the hinge 16. The member 15 is provided with a staple 18 which passes through the eye 12 as shown, and the base member 13. is provided with an offset 19 extending at right angles to its plane which carries the Specification of Letters Patent.

said lugs 20, 21 and 22,

the

Application filed April 11, 1916. Serial No. 90,358."

hinge 14, and therefore supports the hasp 11 1n a plane offset with relation to the plane of 'said base member 13. The hinge 16 is also offset with relation to said base member 13 and therefore permits said staple member 15' Patented Oct. 17, 1916..

to lie in a plane parallel to said base member I as shown.

The base member lugs 20, 21 and 22, extending in the same direction as theoifset19 and hinge 16, but of a height less'than the-thickness of the bights 3, 4, 5 and 6' of the cord to be clamped, so

is provided with three thatsald bights will be considerably squeezed or deformed before said member 15, in its folded position will reach or contact with all as will be clear from Fig. 3.

Between'the lugs 20 and 21 is the roughened space 24 coacting with the roughened surface 25 of thestaplemember 15 to enter the surfaces of the deformed or compressed bights 3 and 4, and hold them firmly in position. And between the lugs 21 and 22 is the roughen'edspace 27 adapted to coact with the roughened surface 28 on the member 15 to compress the bights 5 and 6 and hold them firmly in position. A sealed lock 30 or other fastener serves to hold the parts in their locked positions.

The operation of my improved cord fas-- tener will be clear from the foregoing but may be briefly summarized as follows: When it is desired to close and securely fasten a draw string mail bag for example, the cord 2 is pulled on until the mouth of the pushed into the position shown in Fig. 2. Then if the bag is to be secured as indicated the clamp member is held close to the label holder 8 and the bights 3 and 4 passed over bag is closed and the label holder 8 is roughened surfaces to firmly hold said bights in their compressed positions. The hasp member 11 is next brought down on the member 15 and the parts locked and sealed or otherwise secured together.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary as the arrangement of parts without departmg from the spirit of the invention and therefore, I do not wish to be limited to the the details of construction as wellbase member provided with a plurality of lugs adapted to receive the bights of a cord between them,

thickness of the cord to be'fastened; a hasp member hinged to and offset from one end of I said base member; a member carrying a staple hinged to and offset from the other end of said base member, said hasp member adapted to fold down on saicllugs and compress the bights of said cord andsaid staple carrying member adapted to fold down on said hasp member to hold the latter in place and means to lock together said hasp an staple members when in their folded tions, substantially as described.

2. In a cord fastener the combination of a base member; an offset atone end of said member; an offset hinge at the other end of and of a height less than the posisaid member; a hasp member hinged to said offset; a member provided with a staple carriedby said ofiset hinge; a plurality of lugs spaced apart of a less ness of the cord to be secured, said lugs carried by said base member and adapted to receive the bights of said cord between them; roughened surfaces for engaging sald cords located between contlguous lugs; sald hasp and staple carrying members adapted to fold MICHAEL o. KELLY. Witnesses v JAS. Hreerns,

EDWARD ToPrRANos.

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height than the thick securing said hasp 

